Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the average proportion of a school day which was spent on teaching computer skills in primary schools in the last academic year for which data is available.

The information requested is not centrally collected. A question was asked however, in the National Foundation for Educational Research Teacher Voice Survey in May 2016 at the request of the Department of Education. The question asked respondents:

“Approximately how many minutes of teaching time they spent in the average week across a range of subjects, both in subject specific lessons and as a part of other lessons”.

The results showed that across all the primary Key Stages, the median teaching time spent on Computing was 45 minutes as part of subject specific lessons whilst the median time spent on teaching Computing as a part of other lessons was 20 minutes. Both the report from this survey and the data tables containing this information are publicly available on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-voice-omnibus-may-to-july-2016-survey-dfe-questions